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Town Hall
03:50
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Town Hall
Carried her to sleep half of the week
How he’s still standing is an engineering feat
Cracked in every way, forge to replace
Open up the arches, face the other way
Face the other way
Let’s face the other way
Face the other way
Word of the month, exhaustion of love
How her steel folds, sideway looking tough
Picture of the sea, a will to follow up
This is her town hall, this is the camera club
Face the other way
Let’s face the other way, face the other way
Let’s face the other way
Blood through the wall, it’s hard to breathe
Break through the bones, I’m underneath
Into the wall, it’s hard to breathe
Break through the bones, I’m underneath
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Break through my bones I’m underneath
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2. |
Empty Room
04:50
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Empty Room
Tell your brother I saw him
Tell your brother I got it
Tell your brother I knew him when he was at his best
It’s all about the anger
It’s all about the workers
It’s all about the lovers, clawing each other’s chests
Now you know I’m a liar
Now you know I’m a liar
Now you know I’m a liar, will you clothe me with the rest?
Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound?
The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set
You can’t speak
I can’t stand the sight of
only seeing a brave face
Let yourself through the back gate
The fade you undergo
Now you know I’m buyer
An uncontrollable hire
The empty room and the fire being risk assessed
We would dance in the front room
Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound?
The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set
You can’t speak
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3. |
Theatre
03:14
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Theatre
In our home in the top story
The backroom light is always on
We trip on the wired wall
Remember we got that for nothing
From the pair across hall
Take me through your theatre
And have you checked the electric meter
Because I was thinking you should go
The concrete showered above our heads
Your bare neck on the 24th of plinth
The storm door is forced shut
Of all seven I’m the quiet one
And I never caught your sun
So take me through your theatre
And have checked the electric meter
Because I was thinking you should go
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4. |
Catch in Light
03:30
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Catch in Light
Lens catching light, the flicker moves from left to right
To the drawing pad, a portrait of a closing eye
With dramatic force, open the emotion course
And the rigid smoke seeping in under the doorway
Would you believe this?
Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in
When catch in light, fallen on the absent flight
To a damage task, surreal end to chemicals
With the Eastern coast, a sum of a team entwined
Clip a neighbour’s side, onto the curb and through the night
And the horror stones, stalking in when you’re alone
Would you believe this?
Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in
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5. |
Factory Tax
04:11
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Factory Tax
You’d race us back, another example of the fond under attack
You could bore us so fast like we never wanted anything this bad
Soon, near your own stacks, it’s in the windows, a factory being taxed
So move over the ruin of a private father, the four boys gather
Focus on stealing wire
Focus on stealing wire
While you’re here
We’ll draw on the stats, turning amber with ourselves intact
And we reach for the nineties driving after a sequence onto Spain
And you see it all, in a twenty, a still, yet to be filmed
So pass it here, the gentle confidence, the friendly arm on ear
Move and make the most of a private father, the four boys gather
Focus on stealing wire
Focus on stealing wire
While you’re here
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6. |
Crowds Below
04:17
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Crowds Below
Chimneys apart all in a row
So many starts, it’s taking its toll
Palms to the side, to the moonlit crowds below
You swiftly turn
On the mattress thin, I breathe you in
On the mattress thin, I breathe you in
If only I could leave the room, if only I
If only I could leave
Windows to the side so the smoke will rise
The coal in my hands, the red mist glows
I frighten myself but I’ll keep it in line
You swiftly run
On the mattress thin, I breathe you in
On the mattress thin, I breathe you in
If only I could leave the room, if only I
If only I could leave
I’m in the other room, I’m in the other room
Been in the other room, I’m in the other room
Was in the other room, I’m in the other room
But I’ll be leaving soon, I’ll be leaving soon
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7. |
The Agonal
04:34
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The Agonal
You steam roll jack in the morning, you fed the line
Your personal theatre alarm and the make-up kits
The agonal
You preach, the wooden slots, I was crushed to death
You force the highest creepers and the midnight dance
The agonal
You never said
No you never said
No you never said it would last this long
No you never said
No you never said
No you never said it would last this long
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8. |
Mercury Sills
03:26
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Mercury Sills
By the light and the mercury our minds within the pack
And I left those two behind, the breeze against my back
And I offer to the edge of sills, this states my last
And as I talk, I see the wind screen begin to crack
And it cracks, and I crack
By the air from the underneath, we drown before the clock
And we mist all our best parts, the worst still left in the stock
I should’ve loved forgetting this, instead I missed the lot
And a remoteness of a sweeping chest, the line begins to snap
And it snaps, and I snap
Now I return with kerosene, the keeper’s there
When I returned you weren’t there
No you weren’t there
Now I return with kerosene, the keeper’s there
When I returned you weren’t there
You weren’t there
When I returned you weren’t there
You weren’t there
When I return, you weren’t there.
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9. |
St. Andrews
04:42
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St Andrews
Was it bad?
The way his head just cracked on the concrete ground in rain
Was it fast?
Look at me as you speak each and every word they said
And relay
The slow-motion TV display, each and every scene by scene
Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep
Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off
To the gaps
Between the cobbles lapsed, let it move as stones connect
To the lace
Measured to be placed, the neon lights on the waist reflects
Is this news?
The paper-thin legs they just move, hold each other close like that
Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep
Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off
Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep
Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off
The clicking key, the station is seen
Where the gown had been with a fraying seam
And they all arrive and take their seats
To watch the love so consciously be pulled apart
And we keep our hands in-between
Tell me you’ve just fallen asleep
Tell me you’re just trying to sleep this one off
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10. |
10 Days Before You Died
03:23
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10 Days Before You Died
When did you last me?
10 days before you died
Did you ask for me?
That would satisfy my mind
I was rarely there
When I should have been beside
Now you torture me every second or third night
Every second or third night
At most arose
I beat this pose
I saw your ghost
Are you proud of me?
For moving all these words in sound
Voice of a painkiller
Like you taught me to the ground
No, I was always there
A heart’s been closed around
Now I pine for sight every second or third night
Every second or third night
At most arose
I beat this pose
I saw your ghost
Oh you erase it all
Erase it all, erase it all
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11. |
Cardiac Arrest
03:14
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Cardiac Arrest
She was 21 when they started to run
He was devoted to with a child-like adoring view, all new
He lost the lighthouse key and was driven to his knees
Oh you’re feeling so
Oh you’re feeling sold
It was cardiac arrest, they worked on his chest
Then they all burst in with a blue tint to their skin
He’s in the audience of her supermarket show
He’s everywhere she goes and in everyone she knows
Oh you’re feeling so
Oh you’re feeling sold
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Michael Timmons Glasgow, UK
"exceptional songwriting...full of so much delicate & heartfelt emotion, it’s hard not to get lost in" - The
Skinny
"A man of some lovely words in song" Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
Michael Timmons is a songwriter from East Kilbride who creates beautiful fragile music, sustained by reverb laden finger-plucked electric guitar.
Contact: contact.michaeltimmons@gmail.com
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